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A 12-passenger “seaglider” that is part boat and part aircraft harnesses Cold War-era technology to fly just above the waves ...

What shapes are made by a spinning needle? This seemingly innocent problem has puzzled mathematicians for decades, but now a ...

When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the ...

Quantum fridges, batteries and clocks are brilliant inventions but still limited in power. Now physicist Nicole Yunger ...

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...

Researchers and other advocates for science gathered at Stand Up for Science rallies around the US and the world to protest ...

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Researchers have criticised Microsoft's new Majorana 1 quantum computer, saying it has made claims about the way it works ...